Hosea 10:15–11:9

Hosea 10:15–11:96 matched frames1 pivot

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A 10:15a So shall Bethel DO unto you because of your great wickedness:
- B 10:15b / 11:1-2 in a morning shall the king of ISRAEL utterly be cut off. When ISRAEL was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
  - C 11:3 I taught EPHRAIM also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.
    - D 11:4a I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that TAKE OFF the yoke on their jaws,
      - E 11:4b and I laid MEAT unto them.
        F 11:5a He shall NOT RETURN into the land of Egypt,
        G 11:5b but the Assyrian shall be his king,
        F' 11:5c because they refused TO RETURN.
      - E' 11:6 And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and DEVOUR them, because of their own counsels.
    - D' 11:7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would EXALT him.
  - C' 11:8a How shall I give thee up, EPHRAIM?
- B' 11:8b how shall I deliver thee, ISRAEL? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.
A' 11:9 I WILL NOT EXECUTE the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

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